Golf-ball washer



March 31, 1931. c. FLOYD ET AL 1,798,322

GOLF BALL WASHER Filed April 1928 Patented Mar. 31, 1931 UNITED stares PATENT oFFIc CHANNING FLOYD, OF PASADENA, AND PERCY L. BRADFORD, OF LA CANADA,

CALIFORNIA GOLF-BALL wnsnnn Application filed April 9, 1928. a Serial No. 268,676.

Our invention relates to golf ball washers, and it has among its salient objects to provide a simple, practical and highly eflicient machine for quickly and thoroughly washing and drying golf balls; to provide a machine the box and under the into which the balls can be fed and through which they pass, being subjected to a washing and drying process as they move through the machine; to provide in such a machine of the character referred to means whereby said balls must follow a spiral course of travel one after the other, all the time being subjected to the scrubbing action of a brush, and after which they are of heated air which as they move to the place of discharge in said machine.

In order to explain our invention, we have illustrated the same on the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine embodying our invention, with a part shown in vertical section in order to show the interior construction and arrangement; and

Figure 2 is an end elevation from the right hand end of Fig. 2, with apart of the receiving tray broken away.

Referring now more in detail to the drawings, our invention as here embodied, includes a housing or box 3, in which is a reservoir l, for washing liquid 5, and in the top of said box is a spiralled chamber 6, with an inlet 7, thereto, and a discharge therefrom at 8, into a conduit 9, extending down around box or housing 3, where it terminates in a receiving tray 10. The discharge end of said spiralled chamber is covered with a screen 11. Mounted through said spiralled chamber 6, is a brush 12, on a shaft 13, having bearings at 14 and 15, in the opposite ends of the housing, said shaft being extended at one end and provided with a worm gear 16, in a housing therefor, designated 17. At the bottom of each spiral is a drain opening or outlet 18. The diameter of the brush relative to the spiralled chamber in which it revolves is such that there is room for a golf ball in the spiral, whereby said golf balls are held in alinement one after the other around the brush and in the spiral, the

subjected to an air blast thoroughly dries them revolving brush causing the balls to move around and around through the spiral from one end thereof to the other and at the same time being brushed and turned by the contact of the brush therewith as theyare thus propelled through the machine.

A motor M, is mounted on the housing,

with a-drive shaft 19, extended therefrom across the e with a worm 20, driving the worm gear 16,

in the housi Said motor nd of the machine and provided ng 17, on the end ofthe housing. shaft 19 is extended to drive a pump 21, having an intake pipe 22 extended down into the reservoir 4, to

the washing liq'uidb, anda discharge pipe 23, extended to and discharging into the upper part of the splralled chamber 6,'as at 24, and into the upper part the ports 25 of spiralled chamber 6, through from the chamber 26, into which the pump directly discharges the washing liquid as it is pumped from the reservoir.

Said motor shaft also drives a blower 27,

mounted on the housing 3, as clearly shown, with a discharge pipe 28 leading therefrom and connected with the conduit 9, at 28C P In said discharge pipe 28, is a heating element 29, such as forced through is heated as it and discharged thereinto, as at 28, in a direc-' tion which an electric coil, whereby the air said pipe 28 by the blower 27.

is conveyed to the conduit 9,

is in a direction contrary to the direction of movement of the balls moving down through said condult from the spiral'ied chamber, as indicated by the light broken lines and the arrows.

The golf balls are designated B and are shown in light broken lines.

drain outlet 30 is provided at the lower corner of the box or housing The use and operation of our 1nvent1on may be briefly balls B are described as follows: The golf fed into the spiralled chamber 6,

at the receiving opening at 7 and follow the spiral as the brush 12 is driven by the motor in a direction to cause said balls to travel toward the discharge at 8 and down through the conduit washing liquid from 9. The pump is circulating the the reservoir 4, to the mber 26, where it runs into the amber 6, and onto the balls therebrush, and finally back into the reservoir 4, through the outlet openings 18 at the lower side of the spiralled chamber. At the same time the an or blower 27 is being operated to force air through the conduit 9, and around the heating element 29, for drying the balls as they move to the receiving tray 10 from which they can be gathered.

\Ve do not limit our invention to the details of construction and arrangement as here shown for illustrative purposes, except as We maybe limited by the hereto appended claims.

We claim:

1. In a machine of the character referred to, a chamber having its inner Wall in the form of a spiralled channel a cylindrical brush rotatably mounted in said chamber, an inlet for articles to be Washed, means for supplying a Washing liquid to said cl'lamber, and means for driving said brush.

2. In combination, a chamber having its inner wall, formed as a spiralled channel, a brush extending axially through said chamher with space in the channel around the brush for articles to be Washed, a conduit from the discharge end. of said chamber, means for circulating a washing liquid through said chamber, and means for forcing air through said conduit in a direction opposite to the movement of the articles Washed.

CHANNING FLOYD. P. L. BRADFORD. 

